Saturday, July 09, 2022

Miners Strike Memories: Durham Miners Rally 1984

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Technically there was no Durham Miners Gala in 1984 - instead on the day the Gala would normally take place there was a miners strike rally ...
Friday, July 08, 2022

Farewell Mark Astronaut

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photo from Astronauts on facebook Sad to hear of the death this week of Mark Astronaut (Mark Wilkins). I saw his band The Astronauts a numbe...
Tuesday, July 05, 2022

London Makhnovist Centre squat in Fleet Street

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A group of Ukrainian anarchist squatters have occupied their second building in London. The London Makhnovists Centre at 187 Fleet Street op...
Saturday, July 02, 2022

Glastonbury CND Festival 1982

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During the 1980s - starting in fact with the 1981 festival - Glastonbury was explicitly a festival for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament....
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Saturday, June 25, 2022

'Women Choose, Don't Argue!' - punks protest against anti-abortion bill 1979

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In 1979, Conservative MP John Corrie introduced a private member's bill aiming to restrict abortion rights. In the climate of New Right ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Marching against megadeath - June 22 1980 in London

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Peter Kennard's design for the flyer/poster The announcement of the deployment of a new generation of US nuclear weapons in Europe, coup...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

'Being a clubber felt special' - Dom Phillips' 1990s Mixmag

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Terrible to hear of the murder of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira in Brazil - not just an isolated act of violence but a moment in a brutal w...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

'Low Class foreigners' and men dancing with men: Police raid Italian club in Soho (1900)

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A police raid on an Italian-run club in Soho in 1900 led to fighting with police outside and the proprietors being jailed. The Co-operative ...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Rwanda 'Stop the Plane' deportations protest

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Demonstration on Wednesday 9 June 2022 at Rwandan embassy in London (Seymour Place W1H) protesting against UK government plans to start depo...
Friday, June 03, 2022

Anti-Jubilee Agitprop 1977

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The most famous moment of opposition to the Queen's 'Silver Jubilee' in 1977 (to mark 25 years on the throne) was of course the ...

Ma'at, slave ships and refugees at Runnymede

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Runnymede by the River Thames was the site of the signing of the Magna Carta*, a step towards limiting the power of monarchy (though still s...